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Lecturer to Revive Bob Burns' Songs
Poet Robert Burns’ “Genius far Comradeship” will be the theme of Dr. William Templeinan’s Noon Reading today at 12:30 in FH 133.
Dr. Templeman, head of the English department, said that Burns’ Scottish poems and songs have made him
Calí-forWéi
SUMMER f TROJAN
VOL. XI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1961
NO 3
WILLIAM D. TEMPLEMAN
. . . Burns lecturer
Harvard Man To Join Staff In Law School
Leonard G. Ratner, lecturer in the law at Harvard Law School, has been appointed an associate professor of law at USC and will join the School of Law faculty in September, it was announced recently. He will teach classes in conflict of laws, property and legal process.
Professor Ratner was graduated with highest honoi's in 1937 from UCLA, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He received his bachelor of laws degree from Berkeley in 1940, standing first in his class. He was a member of the board of editors of the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif for highest shcolarship.
After two years as a law clerk to Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court, Professor Ratner served in the Navy four years during World War II. He was a Lieutenant, a trial judge advocate, and legal officer of a Navy base in the Ad miralty Islands.
Professor Ratner practiced law in Los Angeles for 12 years, from 1946 to 1958, serving from 1953 to 1958 as a part-time lecturer in the USC Law School.
known and loved in many lands.
‘‘The poetry of Burns has at times been overpraised esj>e-cially by Sco’s and those who love Scotland," Dr. Templeman saitl. “But he remains an authorl of no small genius, some of whose poems continue to reach readers everywhere, anti to move them deeply and with worthy I strength.”
The English professor will read from Burns' best loved, works, including "Tam O' Shanter,” To a Mouse." "To a ^Louse” ami “A Red, Red Rose."
Dr. Templeman described Burns as a man who loved people and had many friends.
“His fearless wit and social insight and radicalism, in those 18th-century days of political and social revolutionary trends, created some enemies.” he said.
“But as one biographer has said well. Burns ‘lived his life in happy enthusiasm, despite poverty and difficulties, delight-1 ng in the many friends that his genius for comradeship had won.” he added.
Burns's first book — “Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” — was published in 1876. j Its success with the public led him to Edinburgh, where he stayed for nearly two years. In 1788 he returned to his farm and remained there until his; death.
“I shall try to make the read-1 ing a half hour in which Robert Burns, with his genius for comradeship, will give us melodious words that ‘though hoamely in attire, may touch the heart,’ ” Dr. Templeman said.
Hastings Foundation Joins Medical School
CONSOLIDATION-Paul Barnes (left), treasurer of the Hastings Foundation, presents check for $30,000 to Financial Vice President Carl Franklin. A substantial part of the Foundation's income will be given to the Medical School.
Critic Corrigan Will Discuss Modern Theaters Images
T h’e Hastings Founilation. j which has operated a research ; hospital in Altadena for 14 years j to study the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases, affiliated with USC Friday to augment its research through the USC School of Medicine.
The foundation was established by the late Charles H. Hastings, who died in New York in 19-12. and the Charles Cook Hastings Research Hospital was opened three years later.
A judge of the surrogate t probate» eourt in New York recently approved a decision by the board of trustees of the Hastings Foundation to sign a 10-* year agreement with USC. automatically renewable for five-year , periods, whereby the USC School of Medicine will take over and I expand the Hastings research on j respiratory diseases.
The first payment to USC under the agreement was maile at a luncheon Friday in the Sunset Room of the California Club when Paul Barnes, t.-easurer of the Hastings Foundation, presented a $30.000 check to Frank L King, vice chairman and j treasurer of the USC Board of
Trustees.
Under the agreement. USC will receive a substantial part of the income from the Hastings Foundation assets of more than •5-1 million for medical research, teaching and the treatment of ; lung infections.
The program will be administered by Dr. Clayton G. Loosli. dean of the School of Medicine.
I himself an internationally known | authority in this field of re-! search.
A pair of lectures on problems and aspects of contemporary theater will be given today and tomorrow by Dr. Robert Corrigan. professor of drama at Tu-lane University and editor of the Tulane Review.
Dr. Corrigan will explain “The Image of Man in the Contemporary Theater” today at 1:15 in FH 212. His second lecture. “The Language of the Contemporary Theater," will be given tomorrow at the same time in the same room.
Diplomat to Discuss Middle East Problems
A discussion of problems in the Middle East will be led by a member of the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, today at 2:15 in FH 129.
Morris Draper Jr., recently returned from his post as consul for the embassy, will discuss developments in mid-eastern policy under the heading, “Are We Losing in the Middle East?’’
Draper has been in government service since 1947 and has worked in the Middle East since 1957. His next assignment will be to head the economic section for tlie United States Embassy in Jidda, Saudi Arabia.
The diplomat graduated with honors from USC in 1952 after
serving in the Aimy and working for the Department of State. He was made a member of Phi Beta - Kappa while at the university.
Draper was appointed as an administrative assistant for the State Department in 1952 and within the next two years had been made a foreign affairs officer and foreign affairs analyst.
He was assigned as vice consul at Singapore in 1954 and was transferred to. Baghdad in 1957 with the position of second sec-retary-vice consul. He was appointed consul for Beirut in 1960.
Draper has had French language training in Nice and studied the Arabic language-area in Beirut in 1959.
The two lectures are part of a summer symposium in problems in contemporary literature being sponsored by the speech department. They will be open to the public.
Earlier Talks
In two previous lectures on campus. Dr. Corrigan has sharp- j ly criticized modern theater for failing to meet the needs of a ’ changed society.
The critic, who will lie the ! Andrew Mellon distinguished visiting professor in drama at the Carnegie Institute in the ; fall, has claimed the old forms j ami theories of constructing ^ plays and characterizations no , longer communicate with mod- ! ern audiences.
‘‘Today’s theater needs a ‘fix.’ | a communion with the audience j to help us bridge the gap that • separates and isolates man,” he i told a meeting at the Faculty [ Center.
GWes Praise
In his second lecture, he praised playwright Bertolt Brecht for realizing that the basic drama forms of the West are no longer representative of modem society, a fact, he said, that the modern avant garde playwrights are only just discovering.
In the current lecture series. Dr. Corrigan will be concerned with the attitudes toward Man found in the works of major playwrights. He will draw on the writings of O'Neill, Becket and Eliot to illustrate the three
Negotiations between the Hastings Foundation and USC were conducted by Robert Dunlap, a [Hastings trustee, and John Holmes. Pasadena attorney, with Dr. Carl M Franklin, vice president for financial affairs, Gerald Kelly. USCs attorney, and Dean Loosli.
Dr. Franklin, acting for President. who is out of the city, said the Hasting grant was one of the largest received by USC i in recent years.
Speaking briefly at the lunch-Twentieth Century,” will be . eon were Dr. Paul W. Hoagland. published this summer, along 1 president of the Hastings board with his translations of “Six of trustees, Barnes, Dr. Frank-Plays by Chekhov.” > lin and King.
dominant views of Man in terms of his adjustment to society.
Dr. Corrigan Is currently a 1 visiting professor for the summer session in the department of drama and comparative literature. lie earned a doctorate in comparative literature at Minnesota after receiving a masters degree in philosophy at Johns Hopkins and a bachelor degree in the classics at Coi nell.
His book. “Tiie Theatre in the
URA Picks Catalina For Last Guided Tour
A trip to Santa Catalina Is- ! scheduled to return in the early land on Saturday is being plan- evening, ned by the University Recreation Association as its last major tour for the summer season.
A special boat has been chart-
ered for the tour, which co- | URA director Eleanor Walsh described as “an excellent op- i portunity for visitors to Califor- ; nia to see a tourist attraction in j pleasant company and at re- ! duced rates.”
Reservations for the Catalina | trip, which will cost $7.50, are j
Miss Walsh recommended that interested students sign up right I away, since the chartered boat , will accept a maximum of only : 110 persons.
The URA season has included trips to Chinatown. Old Mexico,
; Marineland. Disneyland and var-| ious places of tourist and his-j torical interest throughout the j Southland.
The URA has also sponsored
being taken this week in the dancing and swimming classes, URA office. PE 112. Students and will continue to keep phys-will leave the university at 6:30 ical education facilities open for Saturday morning and are recreational activities

Lecturer to Revive Bob Burns' Songs
Poet Robert Burns’ “Genius far Comradeship” will be the theme of Dr. William Templeinan’s Noon Reading today at 12:30 in FH 133.
Dr. Templeman, head of the English department, said that Burns’ Scottish poems and songs have made him
Calí-forWéi
SUMMER f TROJAN
VOL. XI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1961
NO 3
WILLIAM D. TEMPLEMAN
. . . Burns lecturer
Harvard Man To Join Staff In Law School
Leonard G. Ratner, lecturer in the law at Harvard Law School, has been appointed an associate professor of law at USC and will join the School of Law faculty in September, it was announced recently. He will teach classes in conflict of laws, property and legal process.
Professor Ratner was graduated with highest honoi's in 1937 from UCLA, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He received his bachelor of laws degree from Berkeley in 1940, standing first in his class. He was a member of the board of editors of the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif for highest shcolarship.
After two years as a law clerk to Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court, Professor Ratner served in the Navy four years during World War II. He was a Lieutenant, a trial judge advocate, and legal officer of a Navy base in the Ad miralty Islands.
Professor Ratner practiced law in Los Angeles for 12 years, from 1946 to 1958, serving from 1953 to 1958 as a part-time lecturer in the USC Law School.
known and loved in many lands.
‘‘The poetry of Burns has at times been overpraised esj>e-cially by Sco’s and those who love Scotland," Dr. Templeman saitl. “But he remains an authorl of no small genius, some of whose poems continue to reach readers everywhere, anti to move them deeply and with worthy I strength.”
The English professor will read from Burns' best loved, works, including "Tam O' Shanter,” To a Mouse." "To a ^Louse” ami “A Red, Red Rose."
Dr. Templeman described Burns as a man who loved people and had many friends.
“His fearless wit and social insight and radicalism, in those 18th-century days of political and social revolutionary trends, created some enemies.” he said.
“But as one biographer has said well. Burns ‘lived his life in happy enthusiasm, despite poverty and difficulties, delight-1 ng in the many friends that his genius for comradeship had won.” he added.
Burns's first book — “Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” — was published in 1876. j Its success with the public led him to Edinburgh, where he stayed for nearly two years. In 1788 he returned to his farm and remained there until his; death.
“I shall try to make the read-1 ing a half hour in which Robert Burns, with his genius for comradeship, will give us melodious words that ‘though hoamely in attire, may touch the heart,’ ” Dr. Templeman said.
Hastings Foundation Joins Medical School
CONSOLIDATION-Paul Barnes (left), treasurer of the Hastings Foundation, presents check for $30,000 to Financial Vice President Carl Franklin. A substantial part of the Foundation's income will be given to the Medical School.
Critic Corrigan Will Discuss Modern Theaters Images
T h’e Hastings Founilation. j which has operated a research ; hospital in Altadena for 14 years j to study the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases, affiliated with USC Friday to augment its research through the USC School of Medicine.
The foundation was established by the late Charles H. Hastings, who died in New York in 19-12. and the Charles Cook Hastings Research Hospital was opened three years later.
A judge of the surrogate t probate» eourt in New York recently approved a decision by the board of trustees of the Hastings Foundation to sign a 10-* year agreement with USC. automatically renewable for five-year , periods, whereby the USC School of Medicine will take over and I expand the Hastings research on j respiratory diseases.
The first payment to USC under the agreement was maile at a luncheon Friday in the Sunset Room of the California Club when Paul Barnes, t.-easurer of the Hastings Foundation, presented a $30.000 check to Frank L King, vice chairman and j treasurer of the USC Board of
Trustees.
Under the agreement. USC will receive a substantial part of the income from the Hastings Foundation assets of more than •5-1 million for medical research, teaching and the treatment of ; lung infections.
The program will be administered by Dr. Clayton G. Loosli. dean of the School of Medicine.
I himself an internationally known | authority in this field of re-! search.
A pair of lectures on problems and aspects of contemporary theater will be given today and tomorrow by Dr. Robert Corrigan. professor of drama at Tu-lane University and editor of the Tulane Review.
Dr. Corrigan will explain “The Image of Man in the Contemporary Theater” today at 1:15 in FH 212. His second lecture. “The Language of the Contemporary Theater," will be given tomorrow at the same time in the same room.
Diplomat to Discuss Middle East Problems
A discussion of problems in the Middle East will be led by a member of the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, today at 2:15 in FH 129.
Morris Draper Jr., recently returned from his post as consul for the embassy, will discuss developments in mid-eastern policy under the heading, “Are We Losing in the Middle East?’’
Draper has been in government service since 1947 and has worked in the Middle East since 1957. His next assignment will be to head the economic section for tlie United States Embassy in Jidda, Saudi Arabia.
The diplomat graduated with honors from USC in 1952 after
serving in the Aimy and working for the Department of State. He was made a member of Phi Beta - Kappa while at the university.
Draper was appointed as an administrative assistant for the State Department in 1952 and within the next two years had been made a foreign affairs officer and foreign affairs analyst.
He was assigned as vice consul at Singapore in 1954 and was transferred to. Baghdad in 1957 with the position of second sec-retary-vice consul. He was appointed consul for Beirut in 1960.
Draper has had French language training in Nice and studied the Arabic language-area in Beirut in 1959.
The two lectures are part of a summer symposium in problems in contemporary literature being sponsored by the speech department. They will be open to the public.
Earlier Talks
In two previous lectures on campus. Dr. Corrigan has sharp- j ly criticized modern theater for failing to meet the needs of a ’ changed society.
The critic, who will lie the ! Andrew Mellon distinguished visiting professor in drama at the Carnegie Institute in the ; fall, has claimed the old forms j ami theories of constructing ^ plays and characterizations no , longer communicate with mod- ! ern audiences.
‘‘Today’s theater needs a ‘fix.’ | a communion with the audience j to help us bridge the gap that • separates and isolates man,” he i told a meeting at the Faculty [ Center.
GWes Praise
In his second lecture, he praised playwright Bertolt Brecht for realizing that the basic drama forms of the West are no longer representative of modem society, a fact, he said, that the modern avant garde playwrights are only just discovering.
In the current lecture series. Dr. Corrigan will be concerned with the attitudes toward Man found in the works of major playwrights. He will draw on the writings of O'Neill, Becket and Eliot to illustrate the three
Negotiations between the Hastings Foundation and USC were conducted by Robert Dunlap, a [Hastings trustee, and John Holmes. Pasadena attorney, with Dr. Carl M Franklin, vice president for financial affairs, Gerald Kelly. USCs attorney, and Dean Loosli.
Dr. Franklin, acting for President. who is out of the city, said the Hasting grant was one of the largest received by USC i in recent years.
Speaking briefly at the lunch-Twentieth Century,” will be . eon were Dr. Paul W. Hoagland. published this summer, along 1 president of the Hastings board with his translations of “Six of trustees, Barnes, Dr. Frank-Plays by Chekhov.” > lin and King.
dominant views of Man in terms of his adjustment to society.
Dr. Corrigan Is currently a 1 visiting professor for the summer session in the department of drama and comparative literature. lie earned a doctorate in comparative literature at Minnesota after receiving a masters degree in philosophy at Johns Hopkins and a bachelor degree in the classics at Coi nell.
His book. “Tiie Theatre in the
URA Picks Catalina For Last Guided Tour
A trip to Santa Catalina Is- ! scheduled to return in the early land on Saturday is being plan- evening, ned by the University Recreation Association as its last major tour for the summer season.
A special boat has been chart-
ered for the tour, which co- | URA director Eleanor Walsh described as “an excellent op- i portunity for visitors to Califor- ; nia to see a tourist attraction in j pleasant company and at re- ! duced rates.”
Reservations for the Catalina | trip, which will cost $7.50, are j
Miss Walsh recommended that interested students sign up right I away, since the chartered boat , will accept a maximum of only : 110 persons.
The URA season has included trips to Chinatown. Old Mexico,
; Marineland. Disneyland and var-| ious places of tourist and his-j torical interest throughout the j Southland.
The URA has also sponsored
being taken this week in the dancing and swimming classes, URA office. PE 112. Students and will continue to keep phys-will leave the university at 6:30 ical education facilities open for Saturday morning and are recreational activities